About GAMMA DIY store

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Gamma Belgium

Today, GAMMA is an established company. It's hard to imagine, but until the seventies, Belgium and The Netherlands did not have any Do-It-Yourself stores for the consumer. Only wholesalers in construction materials. Five of them took the initiative and started a chain store aimed at the consumer in 1971, under the direction of H. Steenman.

This concept became very popular, very quickly. In the eighties, the GAMMA chain included stores in Belgium and the Netherlands, Lanser stores (smaller shops, aimed at more luxurious products) and Bouwmaat ( for the professional handyman).

In the beginning of the nineties, the Lanser and Bouwmaat stores were sold and Intergamma focussed exclusively on the large DIY stores for the average consumer. To cope with the competition, Intergamma started executing more and more functions for the franchisees during the last ten years. In her current structure, Intergamma operates three franchise formulas: GAMMA The Netherlands, GAMMA Belgium and KARWEI (only in the Netherlands)

The GAMMA formula.

GAMMA BELGIUM

In Belgium, GAMMA is in the top three of DO IT YOURSELF companies. Every week, 160,000 people visit the 81 GAMMA stores in Belgium. Our 1000 employees service the customers on the store floor every day.